Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
More Ava Gardner Quotes
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Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
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What I’d really like to say about stardom is that it gave me everything I never wanted.
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When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.
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I’ve certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I’ve done a lot of late nights without enough sleep and all that. But I’ve had fun. Whatever wrinkles are there, I’ve enjoyed getting them.
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I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.
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I have only one rule in acting – trust the director and give him heart and soul.
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So this was where lust was satisfied. If I’d been an old-time miner I’d have asked for my gold nugget back.
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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God knows I’ve got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don’t.
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I couldn’t imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
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I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.
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Women’s liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn’t matter who wears the pants – as long as there’s money in the pockets.
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I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.
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I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
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I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
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All I have going is my looks. When my beauty goes, I’m through.
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